Losing an emotional game in St. Louis after a fantastic win in New Orleans is not how many of us fans wanted to feel this Monday morning. That being said, the season goes on with officials that are mediocre and calls that are obtuse and atrocious. That is the state of the NFL today.

With that said, the Redskins face in their home opener the Cincinnati Bengals. Both teams are 1-1 with the Bengals coming off a win over Cleveland and the Redskins losing in a wild one to the Rams.

The keys to the game, in my opinion, are the QB matchups with RGIII and Dalton being young and looking to make their mark in the NFL.

The WR play is going to be key as well. Garcon has to be healthy to give RGIII the comfort he needs to play well. Garcon has shown that he can be a #1 and the Skins need him healthy to be the #1. There is a lot of depth at WR for the Skins as we saw in St. Louis but they need to step up and make plays for the Skins to be successful on Sunday in their home opener.

The Bengals don't have much depth at WR with Green and Hawkins. But Green is a monster and can give the Skins secondary fits like Amendola did in St. Louis.

Two keys the Redskins need to have play well are the people in the trenches and the secondary. The secondary is very suspect right now and with a lot of new faces back there, there is a lot of holes in the lack of chemistry.

The OL needs to give RGIII more time than what he had in St. Louis as the Rams DL had pressure on RGIII most of the game. The Redskins DL needs to get more pressure on Dalton who is not as mobile and could be easily flustered if pressure were to get to him early and often.

How can you predict a win after the St.Louis game? Andy Dalton, AJ Green and Jermaine Gresham are going to torch this defense. RGIII will keep us in it but the Bengals are going to come away with the win.

How can you predict a win after the St.Louis game? Andy Dalton, AJ Green and Jermaine Gresham are going to torch this defense. RGIII will keep us in it but the Bengals are going to come away with the win.

Bengals 35
Redskins 24

The fact that we held the saints to worse stats than the Rams is why we can believe in a win. You never know when we'll have a great coverage day or a bad one. We tried way to many zones which ended up in Amendola being open all day long- I felt like against the saints we had a lot of man coverage and a lot of great defense as well._________________
^^ Good looks by Walter on the skin

Still want to wait on injury reports. Carriker didnt sound like it was all that good, but the reviews of Rak are mixed as at the end of the game, his pads were off, but there was no ice on the chest/shoulder which could just be a tweak. If he tore a muscle in the chest, he would be in a sling with ice to minimize swelling and more damage.

How can you predict a win after the St.Louis game? Andy Dalton, AJ Green and Jermaine Gresham are going to torch this defense. RGIII will keep us in it but the Bengals are going to come away with the win.

Bengals 35
Redskins 24

The fact that we held the saints to worse stats than the Rams is why we can believe in a win. You never know when we'll have a great coverage day or a bad one. We tried way to many zones which ended up in Amendola being open all day long- I felt like against the saints we had a lot of man coverage and a lot of great defense as well.

We gave up over 300 yards passing and 3 TDs to Drew Brees. I understand he had a poor completion percentage but lets not sit here and act like he didn't torch our defense. The defense has given up 56 points in two weeks, we have a major problem._________________Dashing is the greatest FF poster ever

How can you predict a win after the St.Louis game? Andy Dalton, AJ Green and Jermaine Gresham are going to torch this defense. RGIII will keep us in it but the Bengals are going to come away with the win.

Bengals 35
Redskins 24

The fact that we held the saints to worse stats than the Rams is why we can believe in a win. You never know when we'll have a great coverage day or a bad one. We tried way to many zones which ended up in Amendola being open all day long- I felt like against the saints we had a lot of man coverage and a lot of great defense as well.

We gave up over 300 yards passing and 3 TDs to Drew Brees. I understand he had a poor completion percentage but lets not sit here and act like he didn't torch our defense. The defense has given up 56 points in two weeks, we have a major problem.

This...

And with Carriker and Rak out for significant time and Wilson out for at least a week, get used to seeing us give up 30+ points each week._________________

Nothing will shock me after yesterday. But I expect the crowd noise to be a difference maker,plus the majority of the crowd should be Skins fans. I take the skins,28 to 24_________________
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Adopt A Redskin- Chris Baker; 11 Tackles,1 Sack,1 FF

How can you predict a win after the St.Louis game? Andy Dalton, AJ Green and Jermaine Gresham are going to torch this defense. RGIII will keep us in it but the Bengals are going to come away with the win.

Bengals 35
Redskins 24

The fact that we held the saints to worse stats than the Rams is why we can believe in a win. You never know when we'll have a great coverage day or a bad one. We tried way to many zones which ended up in Amendola being open all day long- I felt like against the saints we had a lot of man coverage and a lot of great defense as well.

We gave up over 300 yards passing and 3 TDs to Drew Brees. I understand he had a poor completion percentage but lets not sit here and act like he didn't torch our defense. The defense has given up 56 points in two weeks, we have a major problem.

This...

And with Carriker and Rak out for significant time and Wilson out for at least a week, get used to seeing us give up 30+ points each week.

Call me crazy,but I think we will miss Carriker more than Rak. Both horrible losses though._________________
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Adopt A Redskin- Chris Baker; 11 Tackles,1 Sack,1 FF

How can you predict a win after the St.Louis game? Andy Dalton, AJ Green and Jermaine Gresham are going to torch this defense. RGIII will keep us in it but the Bengals are going to come away with the win.

Bengals 35
Redskins 24

The fact that we held the saints to worse stats than the Rams is why we can believe in a win. You never know when we'll have a great coverage day or a bad one. We tried way to many zones which ended up in Amendola being open all day long- I felt like against the saints we had a lot of man coverage and a lot of great defense as well.

We gave up over 300 yards passing and 3 TDs to Drew Brees. I understand he had a poor completion percentage but lets not sit here and act like he didn't torch our defense. The defense has given up 56 points in two weeks, we have a major problem.

This...

And with Carriker and Rak out for significant time and Wilson out for at least a week, get used to seeing us give up 30+ points each week.

Call me crazy,but I think we will miss Carriker more than Rak. Both horrible losses though.

After seeing Rob Jackson lay an egg I'm thinking we should've kept Markus White. Jarvis Jenkins needs to start because Golston just isn't good on the outside, he was getting swallowed up the moment he stepped on the field. I think people are going to realize just how good Orakpo is if he has too miss an extended period of time...._________________Dashing is the greatest FF poster ever

...I didn't want to say anything, but this was the first thing that popped into my mind. Having said that, even without Rak's injury I believe they planned to draft an OLB in the mid-rounds next year to develop behind Orakpo.

What a mess. You just hope that Richard Crawford can continue to show well, and Jarvis steps it up to make up for Carriker's absence. There's still a lot of young talent that needs to be developed, and it is not going to happen immediately.

...I didn't want to say anything, but this was the first thing that popped into my mind. Having said that, even without Rak's injury I believe they planned to draft an OLB in the mid-rounds next year to develop behind Orakpo.

What a mess. You just hope that Richard Crawford can continue to show well, and Jarvis steps it up to make up for Carriker's absence. There's still a lot of young talent that needs to be developed, and it is not going to happen immediately.

In my opinion Crawford earned the right to start over Griffin in the pre-season and Griffins play hasn't done anything too change my mind._________________Dashing is the greatest FF poster ever